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Fear and fascination with a basic income

This content was published on May 21, 2016 It is a warm May evening in Basel. Daniel Häni leaves a panelled conference room and heads to a nearby café in the old city. He has just presented the idea of an unconditional basic income to the local conservative right Swiss People’s Party. The result was foreseeable. None of the 60 or so participants…

Robots helping cancer patients

This content was published on May 21, 2016

When a mountain becomes an island

This content was published on May 20, 2016 A lot of the work was done by Sissi, Heidi and Gabi, the names given by the miners to the huge tunnel-boring machines that carved out the new Gotthard tunnel. 28 million tonnes is a lot of rock. What has been done with it?

Different routes, different modes of transport

This content was published on May 20, 2016 The new short crossing time is due to the almost straight route and trains that can reach 250 km/hour (155 miles/hour). Click on the animation below to compare the times needed via different modes of transport – old and new – to cross the Gotthard from Erstfeld to Biasca. PLACEHOLDER If you want to know…

The mutation of the workforce has already begun

This content was published on May 20, 2016 After mechanisation, electrisation and automation, digitalisation is the next major advanced technology to revolutionise the world of work. A studyExternal link by Oxford University economists Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne found that in advanced economies, some 40% to 50% of jobs will either be transformed or disappear altogether. The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts…

Switzerland slips in jobless rankings

This content was published on May 19, 2016 The rate of unemployment in Switzerland has risen from 4.4% in the first quarter of a year ago to 5.1% now – the worst figures in six years as the strong franc continues to exact its toll. Iceland (3.2%) continues to lead the field with the lowest jobless rate, with Germany, the Czech Republic (both…

The thousand-franc note is here to stay

This content was published on May 19, 2016 Between 2000 and 2014, the number of CHF1,000 bills in circulation rocketed from 20 million to 40 million. According to left-wing Social Democrat parliamentarian Margret Kiener Nellen, the proliferation of such a high-value note can make it easier for terrorists and thieves to carry cash or to launder money. In a written reply published on…

Can deep sea gloop be useful to humans?

This content was published on May 19, 2016 Jawless and boneless, the hagfish is a rather ugly-looking marine creature that has been around for more than 300 million years. “They live in all the oceans except the polar seas, in the cold and rather salty waters. They are mainly scavengers, that means they feed on carcasses and dead bodies,” explained Lukas Böni, from…

Who offers the best Heidi experience?

This content was published on May 19, 2016 The story received a new lease of life with a Heidi film in 2015, which lured a half a million viewers into Swiss cinemas and was sold to more than 50 countries around the world. Now the Heidi theme is being reworked again on a mountain in canton St Gallen. There are plans for a…

Defining victory in a direct democracy

This content was published on May 18, 2016 Winners versus losers, leftwing versus rightwing – the political process is full of rhetoric that separates people and issues into categories.

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